This particular response draws from various excerpts of AngularJS's directive documentation.
The rationale behind this lies in the fact that AngularJS HTML templates go through a process known as compilation:
Within AngularJS, "compilation" refers to the attachment of directives to HTML elements to render them interactive.
During compilation, template directives are subjected to Normalization, which entails converting case-insensitive names in HTML to camelCase format utilized by AngularJS. This involves the following steps:
- Remove
x-
and data-
prefixes from element/attribute names.
- Transform colon (:), hyphen (-), or underscore (_) delimited names into camelCase.
As a result of this process, instances may arise where two ngIf
directives are linked to a single HTML element. In such scenarios, conflicts can occur (it is explained why having two occurrences of ng-if
works but not when mixed with data-ng-if
- the browser eliminates one directive before reaching the AngularJS compiler).
Therefore, to avoid such complications, the solution is to refrain from using multiple directives in your HTML that AngularJS normalizes to identical formats.